No Amnesty for journalists at the Olympic press center in Beijing

Amnesty International’s website is unreachable for journalists covering the Olympics one day after the organization issued a harsh report criticizing China’s failure to make good on promises to improve human rights leading up to the Olympics. A more practical complaint from the press room — the internet is sloooooooooow. Welcome to our nightmare, guys. A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, while admitting that websites for certain “cults” will indeed be blocked, blamed other inaccessibility issues on foreign web hosts. “There are some problems with a lot of websites themselves that makes it not easy to view them in China,” Liu Jianchao said. Hmmmm. [Source]